[DLung]

Peter -

You may want to try tkstaff's root solution earlier in this thread. I did some more investigation this week and I think my antivirus software is blocking it, since it uses a security exploit to root the Android device. Now that I've got direct access to the system, I haven't tried it again with my company required Windows spyware/antivirus/firewall disabled. If it works for you, tkstaff's solution is certainly the simplest. I am using his build.prop file, edited to region US and language en, and it restored most of the applications Market said were not compatible. It even allowed me to update applications I'd installed from downloaded APKs in all but one case.

...Doug

This post has been edited by DLung: 30 December 2011 - 07:45 PM

[DLung]

pestcontrol, on 30 December 2011 - 07:03 AM, said:

Thanks for the quick reply

I'll look forward to any progress you make and are able to share

Hi Peter -

See my new forum post M11HD updates for Root, Full Market and performance for links to rooted and unrooted system.img with a new build.prop that should solve the keyboard and Market problems as well as improve performance.

I've thoroughly tested both on my unit with no problem. The biggest difficulty is likely to be getting the USB driver installed on your Windows computer. I include instructions and links from Roman on how to do that.

In the "About" item at the bottom of settings, let me know what it says under "Build Number". If it is similar to:
"rk29sdk-eng 2.3.1 GINGERBREAD eng.hey.20110928.190910 test-keys"
it should be identical to mine and you shouldn't have any issues with the Windows updates. If it is something different, we may need to do a little more checking to verify it will work.

Let me know how it works! Happy New Year!

...Doug

[pestcontrol]

Hi Doug

You've been busy :-)

Yes, my build number is identical to that stated - I was a little surprised to see 'test-keys' on it, so am comforted that it is a standard build and not sent with some beta firmware

I'll have a look at your new topic and try out a new image - I very much appreciate the time you've put into this - thanks!

As an aside, the photo quirk seems to vary in severity from time-to-time, with no additional apps running and no change to the photos on the card - I wonder if it is just not using a very 'intelligent' logic to cache the images
Coincidentally, I also mostly have 16GB class 10 cards, but have tried a 1GB class 4 which seems no better or worse

{I did have a problem with my Sony phone and those 16GB cards (but fine with 8GB & 1GB) when I installed the newest Android for that, so I rolled it back - I'll need to try that again one day, but that is somewhat off-topic and very low on my priority list, just noting why I'm not 100% confident of Android with 16GB cards}

Thanks again

Peter

[DLung]

pestcontrol, on 02 January 2012 - 01:07 PM, said:

Hi Doug

You've been busy :-)

Yes, my build number is identical to that stated - I was a little surprised to see 'test-keys' on it, so am comforted that it is a standard build and not sent with some beta firmware

I'll have a look at your new topic and try out a new image - I very much appreciate the time you've put into this - thanks!

As an aside, the photo quirk seems to vary in severity from time-to-time, with no additional apps running and no change to the photos on the card - I wonder if it is just not using a very 'intelligent' logic to cache the images
Coincidentally, I also mostly have 16GB class 10 cards, but have tried a 1GB class 4 which seems no better or worse

{I did have a problem with my Sony phone and those 16GB cards (but fine with 8GB & 1GB) when I installed the newest Android for that, so I rolled it back - I'll need to try that again one day, but that is somewhat off-topic and very low on my priority list, just noting why I'm not 100% confident of Android with 16GB cards}

Thanks again

Peter

Hi Peter - Having a holiday helps -- less interference from work!

I need to find some benchmarks and do some testing, but I think increasing the heap size from 48m to 64m made a noticeable improvement in the response of the device. It was pretty good to begin with, but it seems the transition to a new image is faster and smoother. I'd be interested in the impact on your images. If it clears up most of the problem I might try a 96m heap size.

Since the versions match you shouldn't have any problems with my system.img, but in the odd case you do, I have the update file from Merimobiles I used to restore my unit after I made the mistake of flashing it with the 512mb firmware that I can send you.

...Doug

[pestcontrol]

Hi Doug

Given how quickly you've put this together, I thought it only fair I try sooner rather than later ...

As you suspected, the USB drivers were not happy, but they did sort of install, and I successfully flashed the 'non-root' image (with the usb drivers misbehaving, I thought I'd start safe) and it shows the new build number

I was surprised how quick it was, actually :-)

Looking at the photos, the transitions do seem much smoother, certainly for the first 6-10 photos, but after that it shows the pixelation as it builds the next image
I also still get some of the 'generic' thumbnails

I'll give a proper update on the other thread of how I coped with the flashing as soon as I get chance, but thought I'd drop you a quick update here

I've not tested the keyboard/market yet, but will update later

Any other owners should be very encouraged by your work :-)

Thanks :-)

[DLung]

pestcontrol, on 02 January 2012 - 04:30 PM, said:

Hi Doug

Given how quickly you've put this together, I thought it only fair I try sooner rather than later ...

As you suspected, the USB drivers were not happy, but they did sort of install, and I successfully flashed the 'non-root' image (with the usb drivers misbehaving, I thought I'd start safe) and it shows the new build number

I was surprised how quick it was, actually :-)

Looking at the photos, the transitions do seem much smoother, certainly for the first 6-10 photos, but after that it shows the pixelation as it builds the next image
I also still get some of the 'generic' thumbnails

I'll give a proper update on the other thread of how I coped with the flashing as soon as I get chance, but thought I'd drop you a quick update here

I've not tested the keyboard/market yet, but will update later

Any other owners should be very encouraged by your work :-)

Thanks :-)

Thanks for the test! Although I'd tested it on my unit, I'd been waiting for someone else to try it.

I'll try upping the heap to 96m to see how that works, but I suspect there is something else going on with the images. If you can install a terminal program (I used Better Terminal but there may be better options now), try using it and typing "dmesg" to see if you see any errors. I haven't checked Market for other image viewers, but that might be something else to try. Your Gallery viewer is now exactly the same as mine because I generated that system.img from my tablet, including the system apps.

Upload some of the troubled photos to Google docs or email them to me at dlung0 (-at-) gmail.com and I'll try them on my tablet.

...Doug

[pestcontrol]

I'm still not sure what is going on with photos - after the initial issues, it is now showing them all fairly flawlessly, so I'm going to have to try and figure what makes it not behave - I'll try throwing some different selections on and see what happens (no point me sending you a block of images which are now working :-?)

Recently I've been unable to pry the tablet out of my wife's hands, so I've done less investigation than I'd like, but I'll update here when I get somewhere (or nowhere)

Cheers

Peter

[DLung]

pestcontrol, on 07 January 2012 - 11:11 AM, said:

I'm still not sure what is going on with photos - after the initial issues, it is now showing them all fairly flawlessly, so I'm going to have to try and figure what makes it not behave - I'll try throwing some different selections on and see what happens (no point me sending you a block of images which are now working :-?)

Recently I've been unable to pry the tablet out of my wife's hands, so I've done less investigation than I'd like, but I'll update here when I get somewhere (or nowhere)

Cheers

Peter

Hi Peter -

I tried increasing the heap size to 96m from 64m and everything worked fine, but haven't tried loading the photos off of the SDHC camera card that were giving me issues before so I'm not sure if it really made any difference. If you use the rooted version, you can use a program like "root explorer" to edit the build.prop file in the /system folder directly. That allows you to play around with the system without the need to build and upload a new system.img.

As before, if you want to send me one of the photos that's acting up I can try it on my unit. I also found a another program in Market to display images but it's ad supported so probably not something you'd want to use long-term. I don't have the tablet handy now to give you the name of it.

...Doug

[pestcontrol]

Hi Doug

I'm planning on loading the rooted firmware to give me the flexibility of playing with the heap size and to be able to use titanium backup, etc

I notice you've updated the image files on the associated thread

One thing I've encountered, which may be coincidence, is that the M11 will not now charge whilst powered off - it seems fine whilst asleep, but not with a full powerdown.

It doesnt particularly cause a problem, but got me worried the charging circuit was broken when it had failed to recharge twice, until I realised what was happening

That is one thing I do miss - a charging led

Cheers

Peter

[DLung]

pestcontrol, on 21 January 2012 - 07:41 AM, said:

Hi Doug

I'm planning on loading the rooted firmware to give me the flexibility of playing with the heap size and to be able to use titanium backup, etc

I notice you've updated the image files on the associated thread

One thing I've encountered, which may be coincidence, is that the M11 will not now charge whilst powered off - it seems fine whilst asleep, but not with a full powerdown.

It doesnt particularly cause a problem, but got me worried the charging circuit was broken when it had failed to recharge twice, until I realised what was happening

That is one thing I do miss - a charging led

Cheers

Peter

I've experienced the same thing on my M11.

It does have a charging LED by the power jack (red when charging, blue when charged) but it isn't always accurate. I had it on the charger turned off overnight after it ran for 36 hours of intermittent use and in sleep mode (15% battery) and even though the charge light was blue it hadn't charged a bit. Turning it on and putting it in sleep mode, it completed charging in a a few hours.

Since the system.img is based on what was in my tablet I may have transferred that trait to yours. I noticed this even on the original firmware so I'm not sure what's causing it. A setting in the build.prop file might fix it if it isn't a driver issue.

The new firmware is exactly the same as what you have with the exception of the increase heap size. I've gone to 128m with no issues.

Let me know how your experiments go!

...Doug

This post has been edited by DLung: 22 January 2012 - 03:18 PM

[gorilla2003]

can you tell me the difference between the meiying M10 and the Meiying M11 please?

[DLung]

gorilla2003, on 04 February 2012 - 09:54 PM, said:

can you tell me the difference between the meiying M10 and the Meiying M11 please?

Judging from the specifications on-line, I found the M10 has these differences from the M11:

• 800x600 versus 1024x768 screen on the M11
  
• Front-facing camera only (not confirmed)
  
• 512 MB RAM versus 1 GB RAM on M11+/M11HD version
  
• No Bluetooth
  
• No Google Market (?)
  
• A bit cheaper...

Perhaps the biggest difference is that while there isn't a lot of support available from Meiying for the M11 (and I'm probably being generous), you'll find support for it here on Slatedroid, including upgrades to enable full Market, root access, etc. I haven't seen as similar support for the M10.

Hope this answers your question!

...Doug

[Boriss]

To whom it is necessary. A factory insertion for M11HD 1Gb 3G RK2918

http://depositfiles....files/2z3841iqm

http://letitbit.net/...?+????.zip.html

[mikerugg]

DLung, on 23 December 2011 - 06:02 PM, said:

Hi tkstaff -

It never showed me an icon. Whether activated in the ADB communications mode (holding down Menu when putting the USB cable) or in the USB storage mode (whether selected or not), nothing happened. It appears the software never recognized my unit, even though I have not had any problems accessing it with the other RK29 tools or ADB. Weird.

How do you like the P76Ti? I've been thinking about getting one of those to replace my wife's almost a year old Coby 7015.

...Doug

open batchtool power up by pressing power & M button do not re less the power button just the M button when the upgrade is done re less power bottom